An Alliance, TX to Port of LA stack train heads by Mormon Rocks with a short consist of containers for export. On the left, MPWWC works their way down the Palmdale Cutoff.

Yet another BNSF mixed train descends the grade.

Faded GE ES44DCs dominate many of the trains in southern California, as many of the 7700-class units are assigned to trains out of Barstow, including the manifests out of the ports of Los Angeles ... (more)

A warm spring afternoon in the Tehachapi mountains finds a southbound BNSF general merchandise freight working uphill between Tunnel 10 and Marcel.

2 DPU units help shove a Barstow bound manifest up the Tehachapi Mountains between Tunnel #10 and the siding at Marcel.

3 boats pour on the gas as this eastbound Portland, OR to Chicago, IL Z-train approaches the west switch at Chadwick. The rolling landscape of nothern Illinois is slowing this train up making it h... (more)

The second of two westbound unit grain trains running back-to-back enters the siding at Pillsbury to let two higher priority eastbounds pass. Pillsbury is another one of those fascinating North Da... (more)

BNSF GEVO ES44DC 7711 leads Ferromex 4624, a GEVO ES44AC, a Warbonnet Dash9 and a BNSF Dash 9 into the East end of the Winslow Yard for crew change. The Ferromex unit is very new with hardly a scr... (more)

BNSF 7711 leads a westbound manifest through the series of curves between Darling and Cosnino in the late morning.

BNSF GEVO 7711, a pair of BNSF Dash 9's and a new logoed GEVO highball a westbound stacker through rural Illinois.

The engineer is blowing the horn as a greeting. I talked to the crew before they left Wylie yard.